two excellent posts by a dude who really gets into Texas laws regarding child abuse and the kidnapping, er, the protection of kids who have been allegedly abused by the cps...
that is, protection by the cps, not abuse by the cps, notwithstanding that the two statements are virtually synonymous.
anyway, two good posts...
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ps....up until now I've mostly accepted that Texas authorities were acting on something approximating good faith with regards to the hoax that started it all, or at least i haven't thought it made any difference whether they did or didn't act in good faith...
....mmmm.....not so sure anymore, buddy.
I mentioned earlier that the "hoax" phone call went at one point through one
Flora Jessop....
We might also recall that the Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran has stated that he has relied upon an informant who is an ex-member of FLDS for about 4 years....
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that link, btw, is a picture of Doran and Flora Jessop from April, 2004. four years ago, kinda like the exact time which Doran claims he has been working with an ex-member of the FLDS....
so...if (and that is an "if") Flora Jessops is Doran's informant, then we have a case where the state of texas acted upon a hoax call which originated from someone who was actively trying to get law enforcement agencies to target this group and who also happened to be an informant to a sheriff who quite unequivocally says that he was waiting on the right pretext to go after the group. where there's that much stink, there's bound to be at least a little shit.